Inalc’ER: a program for students in exile
Presentation:
Inalc’ER is a springboard program created in January 2017 by Inalco, with the support of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. It allows reintegrating refugee or asylum-seeking students into a university program for their professional integration, based on their own language and valuing their culture of origin, making it the only program of its kind in France.
The first objective of Inalc’ER is to bring refugee or asylum seeker students up to date in French to join one of our Bachelor’s degree programs or to integrate other short professional courses (DIU, BTS). At the same time, since Inalco offers university courses in more than a hundred different languages, Inalc’ER students can also enroll in courses in their own language (Pashto, Arabic, Swahili, Kurdish, Fulani, etc.), thus enhancing their skills and participating in fruitful exchanges with French students learning, for example, Fulani, Arabic or Pashto.
Some sixty exiled students of fourteen different nationalities have benefited from the Inalc’ER program since its creation.
Starting from the beginning of the academic year 2020, the INALC’ER program becomes the INALCO Gateway program, which gives you the right to receive a CROUS scholarship, either financial or for housing.
Who is concerned? What are the opportunities?
Targeted public: Refugee students or asylum seekers.
Academic level required: High school diploma (equivalent to baccalauréat).
Level of French required: Level B1 of the CEFRL (with proof if possible)
Level of English required: CEFR Level A2 (with proof if possible)
If you don’t know your French level, you can try to take this test online at https://testfle.campuslangues.com/test-francais.
If you don’t know your English level, you can try to take this test online: https://testen.campuslangues.com/test-anglais.
How is the program organized?
The Inalc’ER core curriculum consists of :
- Support block of French FLE in the required level: oral comprehension and expression/ written comprehension and expression (9h)
- English
- Workshop on the French language
- University methodology and system courses
- Computer workshop CV, letters, orientation, professional insertion
- Courses in the original language
- Tutoring
- Choir (optional)
At the end of their course, students who have met the various requirements (level of French, assiduity) can integrate one of our regional course licenses.
This opens up the possibility of specializing and graduating in one of the bachelor’s degrees in languages and civilizations taught at Inalco and/or to apply in the second year of the bachelor’s degree for one of our professional courses (international business, intercultural communication, language teaching, international relations, multilingual digital processing).
Other courses are possible upon application:
- Inter-University Diploma in Hospitality, Mediation and Migration (DIU H2M) (http://www.inalco.fr/formations/formation-continue/diplome-inter-universitaire-diu), which is a one-year professionalization course.
- BTS-type course (11 choices possible) at the Ecole Nationale de Commerce (ENC).
Courses are intensive and require students to be available to attend.
Note: there are other university programs available to refugees; information can be found on the Facebook website at Studies in France for Refugees.
Enrollment :
2020 registrations will occur from May 25 to June 26, 2020, for the September 2020 academic year.
Register via the following link: https://candidatures.inalco.fr
WARNING: Choose the program “DU Passerelle.”
Attention: people without regular internet access can contact Ms. Saglio-Yatzimirsky: msaglio@inalco.fr.
Mandatory documents to download:
- Curriculum Vitae in French
- Precise cover letter written in French
- Copy of an identity document (identity card OR residence card OR receipt of the application for refugee status OR other)
Desired documents (to be provided if possible) :
- High school diploma (official translation in French or English)
- Higher diploma(s) and/or transcript(s) (official translation in French or English)
- Highest graduate degree obtained abroad (an official translation into French or English)
- Results of a test or a diploma of knowledge of French (TCF, TEF, DELF, or others) attesting to a French level B1
Contacts :
- Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Inalc’ER program manager
msaglio@inalco.fr - Sandrine Dordevic, administrative and pedagogical secretary
sandrine.dordevic@inalco.fr
